The mariners magazine; or, Sturmy's mathematical and practical arts. : Containing, the description and use of the scale of scales; it being a mathematical ruler, that resolves most mathematical conclusions: and likewise the making and use of the crostaff, ... and other most useful instruments ... The art of navigation, ... with new tables of the longitude and latitude of ... places round the world, from the meridian of the Lizard: And new exact tables of the sun's declination and right ascension of some eminent fixed stars. Together with a discourse of the practick part of navigation ... A new way of surveying land ... The art of gauging all sorts of vessels ... The art of dialling by a gnomonical scale ... Whereunto is annexed, an abridgment of the penalties and forfeitures, ... relating to the customs and navigation. Also a compendium of fortification... By Capt. Samuel Sturmy
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London : Printed by E. Cotes for G. Hurlock, W. Fisher, E. Thomas, and D. Page; and are to be sold at their shops over against St. Magnus Church neer London-bridge, at the Postern-gate neer Tower-hill, at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain, and at the Anc
Place of creationGreat Britain, England, LondonDate1669Note(s)Reference citation note: Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), S6096, Reference citation note: Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), S6095, Reference citation note: English short title catalogue (ESTC), R23470, Copy note: Three plates bear volvelles. Sep. tp for "A constant kalendar..." dated 1668. sig.3a misbound in prelims. after A3. [superscript pi]c1 with temoin and H3 untrimmed. Some print show-through. Sheepskin binding, rebacked; marbled end-papers; all edges gilt. Provenance: anonymous armorial bookplate, obscured by armorial bookplate of Charles Pasley (motto "pro rege et patria pugnans"); armorial bookplate of Sir Massie Blomfield (motto "auspicium melionis aevi"); bought by the Folger from Sothebys, 11 May 1955, no.666Extent(fol.)Subject(s)Navigation, Surveying, Gunnery, Fireworks, Sundials, Spherical astronomyRightshttps://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
